Calvin Johnson

“Retired life's good, man.”

“I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.”

“I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.”

“It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.”

“Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over there for motivation and use it on Sunday.”

“I put up some great numbers.”

“I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.”

“To be able to sit back and enjoy the game, sit back and watch guys that you know played and you might have worked with it or you personally know, it's cool; it's awesome to sit back and say I know that guy because you're more of a fan of that game and that person.”

“I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.”

“My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.”

“All of us growing up, if you're a professional player or a college player, you're molding your game after guys. You see guys, you see things guys do. Like Randy Moss, I'm a Randy Moss guy.”

“I'm not coming back to play.”

“You never know what can happen in football. It's football.”

“That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.”

“I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.”

“Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches. It happens.”

“My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.”

“The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.”

“I've got nothing to be ashamed of.”

“My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.”